Vintage Easter Greeting Card with Rabbits & Wagon, Early 1900s

Standing upright on its hind legs with a jaunty blue bow tie around its neck, this large rabbit has clearly appointed itself CEO of Easter Operations, one paw raised toward a cluster of yellow flowers in a gesture that reads less 'whimsy' and more 'I am addressing my shareholders.' Below, a smaller rabbit sits directly in the basket among the red and blue Easter eggs on a wheeled wooden cart, which raises immediate child-labor concerns — or at minimum, some very troubling questions about egg sanitation. The power dynamic between the ribbon-wearing executive rabbit and the small basket-dwelling subordinate is the kind of thing that would require several therapy sessions to fully unpack, and yet someone looked at this in 1910 and thought, 'yes, this is exactly the vibe I want to send Grandma.'